The Latest Breaking News from El Salvador

A funeral home in El Salvador has taken Barbie mania to an extreme, offering pink coffins with Barbie linings

Congress passes bill that could allow 900 people to be tried together if they are accused of being in the same criminal group

New rules passed by El Salvador’s congress will allow courts to try accused gang members in group trials, in an effort to expedite tens of thousands of criminal cases for those detained under the country’s crackdown on street gangs

Women from Honduras and El Salvador recount border experience as justice department investigates ‘troubling reports’

The State Department says it's imposing sanctions on two former Salvadoran presidents and dozens of other officials and judges in Central America

A Salvadoran newspaper reported 15,956 people died from the disease, three times more than President Bukele’s official numbers

Honduras plans to build the only island prison colony in the Western Hemisphere and send its most-feared gangsters there

Barbers on Strike, author Michelle Recinos’s collection of short stories, has apparently upset strongman president Nayib Bukele

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has been nominated by his New Ideas party to run for reelection in next year’s contest

In a small room with one light bulb and six bunk beds, Jhosseline Estefanie Argeta Morales, 31, of El Salvador sits on a lower bed organizing a small bag of toiletries at Cobina Posada Del Migrante, a shelter for migrant families in Mexicali, Mexico.

The 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games have offered El Salvador President Bukele an opportunity